In 1987 there were only three monasteries in Russia; today there are 478. Then there were just two seminaries; now there are 25. Most striking is the explosion of churches, from about 2,000 in ...

and Yelet Assumption Monastery were destroyed by Russia. The video shared by the Ukraine president contained not only the names of the churches demolished by Russian forces but also the year of ...

Since August 2024, the monastery has been under constant Ukrainian shelling. Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia said that the Ukrainian strikes were targeted at the churches and monasteries ...

Boris Berezovsky, the Russian oligarch, was found hanged in his Sunningdale home in March 2013. Born to Ashkenazi Jewish parents, Berezovsky converted to Russian Orthodoxy in 1994. His leap of ...

In what appears like a retaliatory move, Ukrainian drone strike ignited a fire that destroyed a wooden church complex in west Russia’s Belgorod region, authorities said Thursday.The attack hit the ...

Ukraine's Foreign Ministry has denounced "religious persecution" carried out by Russia in the occupied Ukrainian territories, ...

MOSCOW, February 26. /ITAR-TASS/. Due to provocations towards Orthodox churches and monasteries in Ukraine the Russian Orthodox Church’s Supreme Church Council has urged Orthodox believers to ...